In the first issue of 2015, we feature a modern take on the Fates, a strangely ambiguous story about the paths of the afterlife, a tale of far-future humans who have survived the death of the Earth, and a goofy set of letters sent by a dissatisfied alien.

Jenna had promised her mother that if the worst happened during her dad’s weekend, they would meet at Red Hill Ranch. When she finds seven words spray-painted on her dad’s wall the morning after a deadly outbreak, she makes a promise to herself: to get to the ranch with her seven-year-old sister, Halle, and to get them both there alive.

Ted Finley was your typical, wise-cracking teenager…
…until an otherworldly force gave him abilities beyond his wildest dreams.
Sixteen-year-old Erica LaPlante was six-feet-under...
...when a blast of blue light brought her body back to life.
Ted and Erica must team up against a gang of undead thugs to save their town, their friends, and... well, the world!

All stone speaks to Farais, and she yearns to be a Sculptor and release their secrets. But Farais is the last one in her family left to recite their lineage, a task at odds with her dreams. To achieve Master Sculptor status, she must obtain her father’s blessing…and her father believes in family and tradition. Farais must find a way to appease him, or she will lose everything she holds dear.

There is cause for celebration in Thamatoc. Avria is getting married, Tinna has new baby and she is looking forward to snowy winter cozily tucked away from all the expectations and responsibilities that await her—at least for a little while longer. But Tinna has a destiny; a plan carefully laid out by the mysterious Keepers, and they are putting their plan into action with or without her consent.

Despair pulls your strings, so come crawling faster.
You'll love this dark fantasy novella because battling evil is never without risk.
For good or ill, Markus Yahne must change the course of Sorrow’s dominion. Time is short, and dread tells his story.
Sorrow's Ruin is the first novella in the Demon Forged series. Look for this page-turner under Dark Fantasy.

Baltimore preschool teacher Sirena Evans has a dark secret: she's insatiable. She is a succubus, cursed with a constant need to feed on the sexual energy of unsuspecting men... Then she meets Kayson Gentry, a sexy blond mechanic with Southern charm, at a bar. She's falling for this man. But how could she ever explain to Kayson what she really is?...

Tiffanie Barton helps her police chief father catch bad guys on the sly. If her great aunt found out, she would really be in for it, but what she doesn't know won't hurt her. That is unless she unknowingly invites a notorious art thief to tea. This story can be read for free at Talesfantastic.com

Sakura is content to learn and play amongst the flowers of her Father’s Castle. When the awakening of the Ika-Zuchi-No-Kami threatens her safety, the God Inari sends his chief Kitsune, Maiya, to rescue the child and her pregnant Mother. As the Earth Demons ravage Atamasanshi, Sakura comes up with a plan to lull the demons back to sleep and save her father.

Jane is born into a long Wiccan tradition. The Beltane ritual is fast approaching when a strange visitor warns that her life is in great peril. A world of magick and mystery awakens around her as she battles the truth of her past, her own emotions, and a darkness that has vowed to hunt her down. Can she combat the evil that stalks the realms in search of her?

Told across seven centuries and two books, Kung-fu Heroes of Destiny is the story of immortal heroes whose destiny it is to bring peace or destruction to the world. From the Wudang monastery of Song dynasty China to the back garden of a modern American home, an ancient tree blooms once every thousand years to bear the fruit of immortality. Only the worthy are destined to taste it.

The Wizard of Ambermere finds Marcia in her apartment in this third installment of the Ambermere trilogy. She has now participated in so many strange events that the most outlandish adventures have come to seem perfectly normal. Nor for Marcia the day to day drudgery of a boring job or humdrum everyday life. Meanwhile, in Ambermere things are not quite as they should be.

Alan Tosetti, the greatest architect in Nevada history, died before he could finish his masterpiece. Two years later, his youngest daughter, died in the same house, sitting in front of the fire, of old age.
She was only twenty-six.
When a big-city architect comes to investigae, he finds a ruin with a soul full of music, and a secret, insatiable hunger...

The Aldaran sword fighters sent to the Kingdom are drawn into helping the poor Dockside dwellers around them, only to find that fighting gang lords and giving a home to stray children are enough to draw the ire of the rulers. In this land of bornlords, where people inherit power and position rather than earning it, will the skills and self-confidence of the armsors be enough to let them succeed?

A force of inexperienced armsors is given the task of guarding a critical station through Aldar's Winter. Despite the drain of their constant sword battles with the monstrous poldarks, their worst fights at times are with themselves, in their need to survive the tight barracks and bitter cold. The armsors shoulder on, using humor, grief, insane bravery and sheer determination.

The Accidental Lives of Julian Landon is a story of romance, illusions, fractured reality, tragedy and the quirks of mystery and irony that make less tedious the pathways and shadows of our human journeys.
It is a tale of fantasy and reality, interwoven in a visionary way that lays bare the mind’s tension between hopes and realness, truths and near-truths, and the logical and illogical.

Seventy generations after the Great Dying, peoples strange and varied vie for mastery of the Island. Cities up and down the length of it lie mangled and buried in centuries of overgrowth. Tribes from the north rise to threaten the whole Island. The hopes of its defenders rest on the frail shoulders of an extraordinarily gifted child.
An eight-year-old girl who must survive at all costs ...